Netflix’s ‘Women Like Us’ Adds Nine To Cast

EXCLUSIVE: Women Like Us, the Netflix film from the Obamas’ Higher Ground and Charles D. King’s Macro Film Studios, has rounded out its cast with nine additions: Greg Tarzan Davis (Top Gun), Melanie Liburd (Bad Boys: Ride or Die), Harry Lennix (The Blacklist), Joy Bryant (Parenthood), Danielle Pinnock (Ghosts), Dewayne Perkins (The Studio), six-time Grammy winner Samara Joy, Tiffany Boone (Mufasa: The Lion King) and Gail Bean (The Drop: A Snowfall Saga).

Character details haven’t been disclosed. Announced in July, the film is led by Vivica A. Fox, Vanessa Williams, Jenifer Lewis and Whoopi Goldberg.

Women Like Us is the story of a recently widowed woman is dragged to the Hamptons by her lifelong best friends and sister on what should have been her 30th anniversary. The weekend becomes a reckoning with grief, with marriage, with the sisterhood that’s carried them throughout the years, and with the realization that dreams don’t have an expiration date.

Tasha Smith is directing from a script by Ali Kinney, with writing from Tracy Oliver. James Lopez and Poppy Hanks are producing for Macro, whose founder King is exec producing. Anikah McLaren and Mark R. Wright are producing for Higher Ground, whose Michelle Obama is exec producing.

Women Like Us is the latest of many projects stemming from a partnership between Netflix and Higher Ground, which won an Oscar for its work on their doc American Factory. Others upcoming include the series The Altruists and All the Sinners Bleed, as well as an untitled mother-daughter comedy starring Julianne Moore.

Davis is repped by CAA, Untitled, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Liburd by Accelerate, Independent Artist Group, Untitled, and Christopher D. Abramson, P.C.; Lennix by Innovative Artists and Untitled; Bryant by Gersh, Principal Entertainment LA, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Pinnock by IAG, Mainstay Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson; Perkins by CAA, Artists First, and Schreck Rose Dapello; Boone by CAA, Vault Entertainment, and Toczek Suddleson; and Bean by Innovative, Echo Lake Entertainment, and The Hay Law Group.